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The Beyond Kin Project and FamilySearch

September 6, 2017 L7D-Admin

We created the Beyond Kin Project (BKP) method with the idea that it would be portable to most online trees and desktop genealogical software environments. So far that has been true in all environments but one: FamilySearch.

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Initials in the BKP website

EP.......Enslaved Person
SH......Slaveholder

How to Document Your Beyond Kin

  • The Beyond Kin method: an introduction
  • Beyond Kin naming conventions
  • Setting up a Beyond Kin Group
  • Processing the Beyond Kin
  • The BK logo for profile image

Researching Enslaved Populations

  • Making the slave connection: an introduction
  • Research strategy for the descendants of slaveholders (real and adopted)
  • Research strategy for descendants of enslaved persons
  • When enslaved ancestors took a name other than the slaveholder

Enslaved Population Research Directory

  • Enslaved Population Research Directory
  • Enslaved Population Research Directory — Add Names

Recent Posts

  • How to Research Enslaved Ancestors
  • How to Add Slave Schedule Information to your Tree
  • Creating a Beyond Kin Tree—The Basics
  • The BKP Research Directory
  • The Beyond Kin Project and FamilySearch

Why Slaveholders’ Descendants Hold the Key

  • Descendants of slaveholders, do we still hold a key?
  • The records of slaveholders
  • The group approach to slave identification
  • The rest of the family picture
  • The challenge and opportunity of a lifetime
  • If you don’t have slaveholding ancestors

Proposed BKP software modification

  • A potential long-term solution from software developers
  • Beyond Kin schematic for software developers

For every soul a story, a family, a name

The BKP

Donna Cox Baker and Frazine K. Taylor conceived the Beyond Kin Project in 2016 as a way to encourage and facilitate the documentation of enslaved populations, particularly by recruiting the resources and efforts of the descendants of slaveholders.
  • What does “Beyond Kin” mean?
  • Why we need the BKP
  • How the BKP began
  • BKP Team

We thank Golden Channel Publishing for its generous contribution of web resources.

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